It may do WMVs, but dont ask for xvid AVIs for efficient, high quality storage. Well, you can, but you have to use an OLD version with bugs.
Unless you thoroughly enjoy new version that lose functionality and pass through beta testing faster than corn through your grandfather, stay away from Snapstream.
Before you buy a Snapstream product, read through their forums.
...after all, when fleeing a storm, the first thing you grab is your laptop and wifi card!
major.morgan makes a good point. This to me seems to be a marketing ploy with little actual value (I didn't say no value) to those that have fled.
I was watching the news, and there are folks in Baton Rouge looking for family members. How come the gov hasnt set up a database driven site to enter names of those rescued, nationally available, so that folks can find each other? In an information driven age, this is a practical way of helpinf families hook back up. The Red cross is trying, but this will stretch their resources.
I can't imagine any sane engineer linking the OS to the intercar communication system in a way that would allow direct control of the car from an outside source
Thats why walmart now has the battery powered tanks for the 300 pound fat people who cannot steer properly (paritally because they cannot turn their necks to see, and partially because of the fat dangling from their arms interferes with the controls).
And yes, apparently the little silver basket is only designed for smokes and "ding-dongs" as the other poster mentioned.
I'm a geek. I admit it. I'd wire anything to a PC network if I could... I even sell software to colleges and universities.
But when my daughter came home from her first day in middle school and asked if I thought she should get her science text book in hardcover or on CD, I said, hardcover of course.
Despite all the news I read online, I still read a newspaper. I still open a book. (Shelly & Keats, Poe, Federalist Papers just dont read as well on screen)
Middle schoolers need books. Forgetting the DRM aspect, the replacement of paper and pen for screen and stylus sure seems inefficient.
Client called us late on Thursday. Their Nortons's had expired, and they bought the 2005 version as a download.
It wouldn't install, because some nasties were living in the system. Well, we went over, got the system to a point that the AV was installed and running. There was one malware left, an older lass buggy. We left the machine so they could do bookkeeping on Friday morning and planned to pick up the machine Friday afternoon and clean it completely.
Well, they called Norton to follow up. Whats the first thing Nortons "non mainland north american" tech support person say? Connect to the internet and download updates! So they did. Ah, well.
Box is on one of our work tables now.
Someone also explain to me why an online, downloadable purchase of Nortons does not INCLUDE the latest virus defs? Or at least defs in the last month? Nortons 2005 download has DECEMEBER 2004 defs in it!!! Lame.
6) Game players cannot fire game publishers. Decisions get made on a CYA basis and game players aren't the first, second or third entity in that feed back loop.
I disagree entirely. They dont reach into my wallet and take my money. It is offered up freely by the consumer in exchange for a product or service. I was an avid Q1 and Q2 player. I did NOT buy Q3.
I am an avid BF1 and BFV player. But I'm not buying a new video card just to play bf2. Sure, someone thought it was good for EA to get in bed so deeply with nVidia that a 5000 gen card or higher is required. So, I'm not interested in buying BF2.
Yes, we consumers CAN "fire" the game companies. The problem is, however, that gamers are like lemmings. They often all jump off the WoW, BF2, GTA cliffs together regardless of a publishers past attitude toward gamers. Boycotts only work if everyone does it. As for me, I'm not interested in upgrading my vid card for one game. If another game comes out that requires it, maybe, but the economics dont make sense right now.
Dear Slashdot: I want to know if my daughter is booting up in her dorm or in the frat houses on campus. But I don't want to ask that, so I have concocted this long story:
Dear Submitter: Grow up. You had 17-18 years to teach your kid to think for herself to stay out of trouble to be responsible for her self and her belongings. Besides, if YOU lock it to a desk and take the key home, she cannot use it in the frat houses. Also, what makes you think she will be using her PC in all those other places???
Because P2P is a constitutional right in the United States and firearm possession is not.
No, No. Got that backwards. Firearm possession is a constitutional right and is there so that if government gets out of hand in regards to our rights to speech, religion, assembly, UNLAWFUL SEARCH and SEIZURE, we can protect ourselves and our rights.
I'm a registered (paid) BeyondTv user. I still run version 3.4 (Build 1334) as it is the latest version to support the writing to divx encoded avis internally. Its buggy. Every 2 weeks the.NET routines die, and it won't update the guide. This means that shows don't get recorded.
Sure I could update to the 3.5x to solve this problem, but Snapstream removed divx support internally in that and all versions to date. That leaves users to throw a bunch of batch files together, hunt down 3rd party apps to do a function that was IN the software when it was sold.
Sure MPEG 2 is nice, but not all of us write to DVDs. And the alternative, WMV, truly bites.
Before you buy, I would STRONGLY suggest that you visit their support groups. Some functionality only works with hardware based encoders and other functions only work with software based encoders.
The upcoming "Congo Adventures" addon will be rated Mature. In the upcoming addon, not only will you be providing food to a distressed population, but you will also be able to open your "red light" district. In exchange for food, local girls will be able to offer "sexual favors" to you and your men.
20 days after the fall of the towers, I had a business trip to Toronto. Drove over from Buffalo. Going over, Canadians only concerned if I was transporting cigs.
On the way back over, never had to show id, only asked where I was born, and if I was bringing booze back into the country.
Last I checked once you serve your time for a crime you no longer have less rights than the rest of us (unless you were released early under the condition you agree to have less).
Might I suggest you "look" some more then.
Voting "Rights": * Only two New England states--Maine and Vermont--allow all felons to vote. * Twenty-eight states prohibit felons who are on probation from voting. * Thirty-two states prohibit felons who are on parole from voting. * The states that prohibit felons who have served their complete sentences from voting are hardly the old Confederacy: Only five of the thirteen states fall in that category. * Conversely, of the old Confederacy, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia all allow some felons to vote.
Gun "Rights": * Under federal law, those convicted of a felony are forbidden from purchasing or possessing firearms and explosives (exceptions: 1965 amendment to Federal Firarms Act of 1938 allowing felons to request "relief"
Seems that despite "serving your time" you are still not granted the same "rights" as other citizens. Why is that? A persons's "rights" ar eno longer valid when their "rights" trample the rights of another. The state has determined, that should you violate the rights of another, to the point of a felony convition, your then lose the right to participate in the democratic process (Amendment 15, 18, 24, 26)(And we wont go into the one person one vote garbage which is NOT in the constitution) and that you cannot enforce your desire to reobtain your rights to such through your "right" to firearm possession and ownership ( Amendment 2).
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Local Game store went out of business. Owner ran a 30% off sale. Picked up a new copy of Scottland Yard that day. Played it with the family, and they loved it. I wasnt sure if they would. My siblings and I played it for hours as kids.
When I asked the owner why he thought business hadnt worked out, his answer was:
"I wasnt sure why until this week. A lady and her son came in. The boy saw a game, and excitedly asked, 'mom, what about this one?' To which the mother replied, 'will I have to play it with you?' At that moment I knew that it wasn't that kids didn't want to play new games, but that parents didn't want to play with the kids"
I'm going to miss that store. We have an entire closet here at the house full of games. About half of them are the basic games one can find at Toys'r'Us and walmart. The rest are the "what kind of game is that???" stuff that really challange the mind. I love it when my kids bring an "off the wall game" and want to learn how to play it. Cooties are still fun for a 5 year old, but when he drags out Zertz, Apples to Apples, or Blink I know that he is going to grow up with an edge over the nintendo playing couch potatoes. It may not be a financial advantage, but at least he will enjoy the stimulation that comes from trying new things, learning new things.
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France? Germany? Not likely.
Can't even discuss Nazi history there.
Can't trade Nazi memorabilia.
Suggestion of Great Britian, possibly. They tend to have their heads screwed on straight. Canada, our 51st state? What would be the difference?
It may do WMVs, but dont ask for xvid AVIs for efficient, high quality storage. Well, you can, but you have to use an OLD version with bugs.
Unless you thoroughly enjoy new version that lose functionality and pass through beta testing faster than corn through your grandfather, stay away from Snapstream.
Before you buy a Snapstream product, read through their forums.
...after all, when fleeing a storm, the first thing you grab is your laptop and wifi card!
major.morgan makes a good point. This to me seems to be a marketing ploy with little actual value (I didn't say no value) to those that have fled.
I was watching the news, and there are folks in Baton Rouge looking for family members. How come the gov hasnt set up a database driven site to enter names of those rescued, nationally available, so that folks can find each other? In an information driven age, this is a practical way of helpinf families hook back up. The Red cross is trying, but this will stretch their resources.
I can't imagine any sane engineer linking the OS to the intercar communication system in a way that would allow direct control of the car from an outside source
*Cough* OnStar??
http://inky.50megs.com/idlechild/songs/theworms.ht m
Many more cool and disgusting verses to parents song.
Thats why walmart now has the battery powered tanks for the 300 pound fat people who cannot steer properly (paritally because they cannot turn their necks to see, and partially because of the fat dangling from their arms interferes with the controls).
And yes, apparently the little silver basket is only designed for smokes and "ding-dongs" as the other poster mentioned.
We would have to define "perfect" before calculating.
If we subscribe to evolution as the theory of man's beginnings than we are a collection of mutatations.
If we subscribe to an Intellegent Design theory (created in the image of God) then why so many differences in our genetic makeups?
So what is the "base" upon which we compare perfection?
Dual screens with a nVidia 4400 worked ok.
Failed on the other dual head system with an ATI in it. Just an fYI.
I'm a geek. I admit it. I'd wire anything to a PC network if I could... I even sell software to colleges and universities.
But when my daughter came home from her first day in middle school and asked if I thought she should get her science text book in hardcover or on CD, I said, hardcover of course.
Despite all the news I read online, I still read a newspaper. I still open a book. (Shelly & Keats, Poe, Federalist Papers just dont read as well on screen)
Middle schoolers need books. Forgetting the DRM aspect, the replacement of paper and pen for screen and stylus sure seems inefficient.
I miss Speakeasy.
Bought a new house, and cant use them anymore.
Am stuck on telco's dsl.
But yeah, Speakeasy was a great company.
Of course since Slashdot is already available from their default list of technology sites, why would you need the ability to include an RSS feed?
It takes less bandwidth to see a dupe headline with RSS than it does when one reloads the entire slashdot mainpage. [rimshot]
Because Slashdot has become a mirror for other sites, only 24-48 hours late?
Client called us late on Thursday. Their Nortons's had expired, and they bought the 2005 version as a download.
It wouldn't install, because some nasties were living in the system. Well, we went over, got the system to a point that the AV was installed and running. There was one malware left, an older lass buggy. We left the machine so they could do bookkeeping on Friday morning and planned to pick up the machine Friday afternoon and clean it completely.
Well, they called Norton to follow up. Whats the first thing Nortons "non mainland north american" tech support person say? Connect to the internet and download updates! So they did. Ah, well.
Box is on one of our work tables now.
Someone also explain to me why an online, downloadable purchase of Nortons does not INCLUDE the latest virus defs? Or at least defs in the last month? Nortons 2005 download has DECEMEBER 2004 defs in it!!! Lame.
Boy is MCSE.
Girl is MCAD.
I disagree entirely. They dont reach into my wallet and take my money. It is offered up freely by the consumer in exchange for a product or service. I was an avid Q1 and Q2 player. I did NOT buy Q3.
I am an avid BF1 and BFV player. But I'm not buying a new video card just to play bf2. Sure, someone thought it was good for EA to get in bed so deeply with nVidia that a 5000 gen card or higher is required. So, I'm not interested in buying BF2.
Yes, we consumers CAN "fire" the game companies. The problem is, however, that gamers are like lemmings. They often all jump off the WoW, BF2, GTA cliffs together regardless of a publishers past attitude toward gamers. Boycotts only work if everyone does it. As for me, I'm not interested in upgrading my vid card for one game. If another game comes out that requires it, maybe, but the economics dont make sense right now.
Not really.
Organization has x number of MCSEs.
Company now is a "Solution Provider".
Microsoft sends work to your door. Large work.
Man, I read it a little differently.
Dear Slashdot:
I want to know if my daughter is booting up in her dorm or in the frat houses on campus. But I don't want to ask that, so I have concocted this long story:
Dear Submitter:
Grow up. You had 17-18 years to teach your kid to think for herself to stay out of trouble to be responsible for her self and her belongings. Besides, if YOU lock it to a desk and take the key home, she cannot use it in the frat houses. Also, what makes you think she will be using her PC in all those other places???
Because P2P is a constitutional right in the United States and firearm possession is not.
No, No. Got that backwards.
Firearm possession is a constitutional right and is there so that if government gets out of hand in regards to our rights to speech, religion, assembly, UNLAWFUL SEARCH and SEIZURE, we can protect ourselves and our rights.
I believe that is the standard answer.
I'm a registered (paid) BeyondTv user. I still run version 3.4 (Build 1334) as it is the latest version to support the writing to divx encoded avis internally. Its buggy. Every 2 weeks the .NET routines die, and it won't update the guide. This means that shows don't get recorded.
Sure I could update to the 3.5x to solve this problem, but Snapstream removed divx support internally in that and all versions to date. That leaves users to throw a bunch of batch files together, hunt down 3rd party apps to do a function that was IN the software when it was sold.
Sure MPEG 2 is nice, but not all of us write to DVDs. And the alternative, WMV, truly bites.
Before you buy, I would STRONGLY suggest that you visit their support groups.
Some functionality only works with hardware based encoders and other functions only work with software based encoders.
Guy in ATL lives on this lake, actually in this cove. He found this the other day, kind of wonders if its anyone he knows.
8 25 9&spn=0.005203,0.007703&t=k&hl=en
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.118814,-84.70
The upcoming "Congo Adventures" addon will be rated Mature. In the upcoming addon, not only will you be providing food to a distressed population, but you will also be able to open your "red light" district. In exchange for food, local girls will be able to offer "sexual favors" to you and your men.
Damn French Moose Terrorists.
First its the new signage in 2 languages, then its the attacks on police stations.
Wait, Canada you say?
Naked Democrats
Hot Liberal Action
Michael Moore Exposed
Job Wanted
20 days after the fall of the towers, I had a business trip to Toronto. Drove over from Buffalo. Going over, Canadians only concerned if I was transporting cigs.
On the way back over, never had to show id, only asked where I was born, and if I was bringing booze back into the country.
Same thing about 3 months ago.
Its about time they start checking folks.
Might I suggest you "look" some more then.
Voting "Rights":
* Only two New England states--Maine and Vermont--allow all felons to vote.
* Twenty-eight states prohibit felons who are on probation from voting.
* Thirty-two states prohibit felons who are on parole from voting.
* The states that prohibit felons who have served their complete sentences from voting are hardly the old Confederacy: Only five of the thirteen states fall in that category.
* Conversely, of the old Confederacy, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia all allow some felons to vote.
Gun "Rights":
* Under federal law, those convicted of a felony are forbidden from purchasing or possessing firearms and explosives
(exceptions: 1965 amendment to Federal Firarms Act of 1938 allowing felons to request "relief"
Seems that despite "serving your time" you are still not granted the same "rights" as other citizens. Why is that? A persons's "rights" ar eno longer valid when their "rights" trample the rights of another. The state has determined, that should you violate the rights of another, to the point of a felony convition, your then lose the right to participate in the democratic process (Amendment 15, 18, 24, 26)(And we wont go into the one person one vote garbage which is NOT in the constitution) and that you cannot enforce your desire to reobtain your rights to such through your "right" to firearm possession and ownership ( Amendment 2).
Local Game store went out of business.
Owner ran a 30% off sale. Picked up a new copy of Scottland Yard that day. Played it with the family, and they loved it. I wasnt sure if they would. My siblings and I played it for hours as kids.
When I asked the owner why he thought business hadnt worked out, his answer was:
"I wasnt sure why until this week. A lady and her son came in. The boy saw a game, and excitedly asked, 'mom, what about this one?' To which the mother replied, 'will I have to play it with you?' At that moment I knew that it wasn't that kids didn't want to play new games, but that parents didn't want to play with the kids"
I'm going to miss that store. We have an entire closet here at the house full of games. About half of them are the basic games one can find at Toys'r'Us and walmart. The rest are the "what kind of game is that???" stuff that really challange the mind. I love it when my kids bring an "off the wall game" and want to learn how to play it. Cooties are still fun for a 5 year old, but when he drags out Zertz, Apples to Apples, or Blink I know that he is going to grow up with an edge over the nintendo playing couch potatoes. It may not be a financial advantage, but at least he will enjoy the stimulation that comes from trying new things, learning new things.